Roberto Mancini has bemoaned the lack of output from his strikers in recent weeks and said they were "maybe too soft" after the frustrating Barclays Premier League defeat at Sunderland on Boxing Day.
David Platt: "I don't think he means soft - sometimes it can be lost in translation.
"In the last few games we have produced enough efforts on goal but if you correlate the statistics we should be scoring more goals.
"These things have a habit of balancing out over the season.
"Goalscorers, at the end of the season, usually have the same quota that they had (in previous years).
"What we have to do is keep on producing the chances. But it's not just about strikers. We have to start scoring goals when we have a supremacy in the game."